When you have strong views about how to approach thinking about the law, then that view is going to lead to certain results in certain situations. And so people seem to think this predictability is based on some kind of partisan political view. But it's not.

I am a product of affirmative action. I am the perfect affirmative action baby. I am Puerto Rican, born and raised in the south Bronx. My test scores were not comparable to my colleagues at Princeton and Yale. Not so far off so that I wasn't able to succeed at those institutions.

The Latina in me is an ember that blazes forever.

We educated, privileged lawyers have a professional and moral duty to represent the underrepresented in our society, to ensure that justice exists for all, both legal and economic justice.

You make your life choices understanding that you might and do have to work harder to prove yourself.

[On the desert:] The wind was a constant, and when you paid attention, it seemed like the earth's own breathing.

I hope in my book [My Beloved World], that the sense that I really feel connected comes through.